I knew about bitcoin in the most general sense. I had began playing with stocks, learning to read charts and what not. Then, a dude by the name of Jerry Banfield graced my screen with this "make money online" ideas, and he was very bullish about Steem. I didn't understand much, but the idea I could make tokens singing and playing my original music was too tempting. I joined, became very involved with the music community, a judge for the open mic later, and well... the rest is history. Down the rabbit hole I went.